The Library of Congress just announced to have reached two important milestones with respect to the Bibliographic Framework Initiative:the introduction of a draft data model for web-based bibliographic description, anda first meeting of a small group of early experimenters currently exploring the feasibility of the proposed model.The new ...
The CIARD Movement has published a third use case, this time about the National Agricultural Information System/Network (NAIS) of Jordan.
This case study describes NAIS and provides a brief on progress towards openness of agricultural research for innovation, as expressed by the CIARD Manifesto and Checklist. It also highlights ...
A session at the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2) on “Access, Sharing and Transformation of Agricultural Data and Information” featured CIARD. Several members of the CIARD Advocacy Task Force and representatives of CIARD partners attended in the session, as chair, panelists, facilitators, and participants.
In terms ...
Are you interested to attend the IFLA WLIC 2013? Then have a look at the news that IFLA just published on WLIC 2013 website "the Singapore Government will offer partial sponsorship for delegates of developing countries to attend the IFLA annual conference".The partial sponsorship will cover:Accommodation at a designated hotel ...
Is Open Access only for rich countries? What does Open Access mean for the developing world? What can it offer?A series of debates on these questions is scheduled to start on Tuesday, November 27. Funded by UK's Department for International development (DFID) and hosted on UNESCO’s WSIS Open Access ...
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